5 October 2015 – 8 January 2016
The tuition in the Winter Term 2015/16 starts on October 5, 2015 and ends on January 8, 2016.
7 December 2015 – 11 December 2015
Between December 7th and 11th Christmas Charity Market will be held in Jinonice. The market is held in cooperation with non-profit organisation SIRIRI (providing development aid in Central African Republic ) and FHS students.
Feel free to use the opportunity to get the perfect Christmas gifts (t-shirts, bags, etc) and support people in Central African Republic at the same time!
18 December 2015
As there is a Dean´s day on December 18, all classes for this day have been cancelled.
19 December 2015 – 3 January 2016
The winter holidays start on December 19, 2015 and end on January 3, 2016.
The public holidays are as follows:
December 24 - Christmas Eve
December 25 - Christmas Day
December 26 - St. Stephen's Day (The Second Christmas Day)
11 January 2016 – 12 February 2016
The exam period in the Winter Term starts on January 11, and ends on February 12, 2016.
13 January 2016
At the Faculty Open House visitors will be able to find basic information on the individual departments, including bachelor’s and the related master’s and doctorate study programmes.
14 January 2016
Prague-based public universities are happy to invite high school students to the Study in Prague -- Prague Public Universities Fair. The universities are set to present their Bachelor and Master programmes. The entrance is free.The Faculty of Humanities will be presented at the Charles University stand during the whole fair.
15 January 2016
Dear members of Charles University academia, dear colleagues, students, Charles University employees, and friends,
On behalf of the university management, let us invite you to the Charles University Gala Ball, taking place on January 15, 2016, at 8 PM, in Palace Žofín, Slovanský ostrov 226, Praha 1.
8 February 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "For an anti-predicative concept of recognition: the limits of the politics of difference" by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle (Universidade de São Paulo).
15 February 2016
Arrival Day for non-degree international students has been set up on February 15, 2016.
15 February 2016 – 7 March 2016
In the Summer Term 2016 courses are open for online registration between February 15 (09:00 PM) and March 7, 2016. For the students enrolled at other Faculties than the Faculty of Humanities, the registration to FHS courses opens February 16 (09:00 PM).
16 February 2016 – 19 February 2016
During the first week of the semester, before the teaching period itself, the FHS International Office organizes the Orientation Programme to welcome new international students in Prague and at CU.
22 February 2016 – 20 May 2016
Tuition in the Summer Term 2015/16 starts on February 22, 2016 and ends on May 20, 2016.
25 February 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture “Violence and Democracy” by Michel Wieviorka.
29 February 2016
Application deadline for BA and MA studies is February, 29. Application form is available in SIS. Further inormation is available at undergraduate/graduate section.
1 March 2016 – 31 March 2016
The exhibition of photographs focused on 14th century Gothic plastic art will take place in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and in the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlštejn, where Master Theodoric will be emphasised. The exhibition will inaugurate the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV in Charles University.
4 March 2016
Professor Fabio Grigenti from Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy will give the lecture "Philosophers and Machines. An Anthropotechnical Perspective" on March 4, 2016 at the Faculty of Humanities.
15 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "The nation of culture in the contemporary societies" by professor Massimiliana Ruzzedu (University Niccolo Cusano, Roma, Italy).
16 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "Sociology of contemporary Italy" by professor Massimiliana Ruzzedu (University Niccolo Cusano, Roma, Italy).
16 March 2016 – 19 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the international conference "Space of the Nordic Literature“. The conference program consists of two sections: I. "Boundaries and transformations in Old Norse genres – synchronic and diachronic perspectives" and II. "Modernity in Modern Scandinavian literature".
16 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the lecture "Passions and the Maintenance of Institutions: Hobbes, Mill and Rorty" by Adrian Blau (King´s College London).
17 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "Latest advances in complexity theories" by professor Massimiliana Ruzzedu (University Niccolo Cusano, Roma, Italy).
17 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the lecture "How (Not) To Use History of Political Thought/Philosophy for Contemporary Purposes" by Adrian Blau (King´s College London).
18 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the Hobbes Seminar by Adrian Blau (King´s College London). The seminar takes place in two parts:
I. Interpreting Hobbes Philosophically and Historically: Different Questions, Different Answers?
II. Reason, Deliberation, and the Passions
18 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the lecture "Reflexivity in eddic kennings: opening up mythological space in dialogic exchange" by Judy Quinn (University of Cambridge).
18 March 2016
Faculty of Humanities invites you to the lecture "Islands, Narrative and Feelings, with special reference to Sámsey" by Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford).
19 March 2016
Are you considering studying at Great Britain's most elite universities? Interested in academic essays and their evaluation at Oxford, Cambridge or King's College London ("KCL")? And want to discuss this and more with the holder of the KCL Teaching Excellence Award and a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge?
If so, do not miss the Academic Essay Workshop, which will feature Dr. Adrian Blau of King's College London. The workshop will be held in English and is open to students and teachers alike.
21 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "Social Causality“ by professor for Social Theory and Cultural Sociology Helmut Staubmann (Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck).
22 March 2016
Department of Historical Sociology invites you to the lecture "The Rolling Stones – Sociological Perspectives" by professor for Social Theory and Cultural Sociology Helmut Staubmann (Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck).
23 March 2016
Need to address your audience in English? Want to know how to prepare an entertaining presentation? Interested in the basics of graphic design? If that is the case, the seminars are exactly right for you. The first two 180 minute lessons will take place on March 23 and April 24, respectively, and will be followed by a practical part two weeks later, which will include presentations by the students themselves, who will be given feedback. The seminars will take place in English and are aimed at doctoral and post-doctoral students of CU.
24 March 2016
On March 24, 2016 the Dean’s Day has been scheduled. All FHS classes for this day have been cancelled.
31 March 2016
Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, CU invites you the public lecture “Over the Rainbow: Labelle, Black Feminist Musical Self-Fashioning, and 1970s Freedom Dreams”. The lecture will be presented by Gayle Wald from George Washington University. The lecture shall take place in the university area Vokovice on March 31, 2016. The lecture and the follow-up discussion will be held in English. Admission is free.
1 April 2016 – 15 April 2016
Students’ Association “Studenti FHS UK” is happy to invite you to the Festival of Humanity and Solidarity. The theme of this year is migration and its consequences in culture – music, theatre, photography and gastronomy – but also in the personal experience of volunteers, not only from FHS, who help manage the dismal situation of refugees on the borders of the European Union and at the places of conflict.
4 April 2016 – 8 April 2016
Department of German and French Philosophy, Erasmus Master Mundus EuroPhilosophie, is hosting Prof. Pierre Rodrigo from Université de Bourgogne in the week of 4 April 2016. Prof. Rodrigo will give seminars in the framework of the « Phénoménologie de l’image cinématographique » course. The relation between philosophy and cinema will be discussed from different points of view.
All students and colleagues are cordially invited.
14 April 2016
On April 14, 2016 the regular meeting of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Humanites is held in Jinonice.
15 April 2016
Are you taking at least one UPCES class? Than use the opportunity to join the trip.
Litoměřice is one of the oldest Czech towns ever founded. To this day, it remains untouched by the tourist crowds, and in many ways offers a picture into life in the Czech Republic outside of Prague.
16 April 2016
On 16 April, the traditional Day of Lifelong Learning and Graduation Festival, aimed at UK graduates and the public, will get under way. As part of the programme, three prominent experts on the life and times of Charles IV will give their lectures. One of them is Professor Jan Royt, Vice-chancellor of Charles University, who is an expert on the fine arts of the period under review.
18 April 2016
Charles University in Prague would like to invite you to the lecture: "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets", which will be given by professor Michael Sandel.
20 April 2016
Need to address your audience in English? Want to know how to prepare an entertaining presentation? Interested in the basics of graphic design? If that is the case, the seminars are exactly right for you. The first two 180 minute lessons will take place on March 23 and April 24, respectively, and will be followed by a practical part two weeks later, which will include presentations by the students themselves, who will be given feedback. The seminars will take place in English and are aimed at doctoral and post-doctoral students of CU.
21 April 2016
The seminar on the 700th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV will be held in the large auditorium of the Institute of Anatomy. The contributions will focus on the life and death of Charles IV. Charles’s inheritance from his ancestors, his fatal injury and the medical-anthropological interpretation of his skeletal remains will be discussed in the light of the latest research.
29 April 2016 – 30 April 2016
Department of Germany and French Philosophy invites all colleagues and students to attend a block seminar on topics in early phenomenology. The seminar is organised in cooperation with Universität Kassel and will include presentations by Dr. Karen Joisten (Universität Kassel) a doc. Hans Rainer Sepp (Faculty of Humanities, CU in Prague).
30 April 2016
Application deadline for PhD studies is April 30, 2016.
Further information is available in the section Postgraduate.
1 May 2016
Labour Day is a national holiday in the Czech Republic,
celebrated on May 1. It is synonymous with International Worker`s Day. It is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers.
2 May 2016 – 6 May 2016
Department of German and French Philosophy and Erasmus Master Mundus EuroPhilosophie programme invites all colleagues and students to lectures presented as part of the EMM course „Philosophie de la religion: approches phénoménologique et métaphysique“. The lectures entitled The theological and the linguistic turn of XXth Century Philosophy will be presented by Dr Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska, a member of the Institute for the Study of Religions at the Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
3 May 2016 – 31 May 2016
The exhibition focuses on the development of medicine and the Medical Faculty from the times of Charles IV to the present. Visitors will have the opportunity to see extracts from period textbooks, examine various medical instruments and photos from the history of the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University. Information on the origin and development of many medical disciplines and architectural curiosities of buildings that belonged or belong to the First Faculty of Medicine will also be presented.
4 May 2016
Healthy body - healthy mind! Come and join the Rector's Sports Day on Wednesday 4th May 2016. This year you can try almost 30 different sports and watch an exhibition of some other disciplines. All FHS classes for this day have been cancelled.
7 May 2016
Charles IV’s birthday celebration for the general public will take place on Charles Square. A medieval town will be set up with swordsmen, jugglers, musicians and craft markets, while workshops will be available for children. In the afternoon a historical procession will take the route to the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Charles the Great in Karlov, Prague. The Jaksi Taksi, Imodium and Blue Effect bands will play in addition to a rich accompanying programme.
9 May 2016
The Orchestra and Chorus of Charles University will perform the concert that was rehearsed for the Office of the President. The concert will include pieces by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and George Händel. It will take 70 minutes in total. The concert will also open the conference "Charles IV, Lands of the Bohemian Crown and Europe".
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
